1967 Indian general election in Madras State

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Template:For Template:Infobox election The 1967 Indian general election polls in Tamil Nadu were held for 39 seats in the state. The result was a huge victory for Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, led by C.N. Annadurai and its ally Swatantra Party, led by C. Rajagopalachari. Madras was the first and one of few states, where a non-Congress Party won more seats than Congress in a state. A huge wave of anti-incumbency against the Congress was present in Madras, 1967, which led to the defeat of the popular leader K. Kamaraj and his party in both the state and national elections, won by DMK and its allies. After this election, the DMK supported the Congress party under Indira Gandhi.

Seat Allotment

United Front

No.	Party		Election Symbol	Leader	Seats
1.	Template:Full party name with color		C. N. Annadurai	25
2.	Template:Full party name with color	File:Swatantra Party symbol.png	C. Rajagopalachari	7
3.	bgcolor="Template:Party color" \|	Communist Party of India (Marxist)		M. R. Venkataraman	6
Unrecognized parties, whose candidates ran as an independent supported by DMK
4.	Template:Full party name with color		Muhammed Ismail	1

Congress

No.	Party		Election Symbol	Leader	Seats
1.	Template:Full party name with color		K. Kamaraj	39

Voting and results

Alliance		Party		Popular Vote	Percentage	Swing	Seats won	Seat Change
rowspan="5" bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|	United Front	bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	5,524,514	35.78%	Template:Increase17.14%	25	Template:Increase18
bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|		Swatantra Party	1,414,208	9.16%	Template:Decrease1.31%	6	Template:Increase6
bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|		Communist Party of India (Marxist)	1,057,542	6.85%	new party	4	new party
bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|		Independent	180,392	1.17%	Template:Decrease0.20%	1	Template:Increase1
		Total	8,176,656	52.96%	Template:Increase22.48%	36	Template:Increase29
bgcolor="Template:Party color\|	Indian National Congress			6,436,710	41.69%	Template:Decrease3.57%	3	Template:Decrease28
bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|	Communist Party of India			299,841	1.69%	Template:Decrease8.55%	0	Template:Decrease2
bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|	Bharatiya Jana Sangh			33,626	0.22%	Template:Increase0.18%	0	Template:Nochange
bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|	Republican Party of India			31,451	0.20%	Template:Decrease1.54%	0	Template:Nochange
bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|	Praja Socialist Party			12,162	0.08%	Template:Decrease1.60%	0	Template:Nochange
bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|	Independents			448,648	3.16%	Template:Decrease4.35%	0	Template:Nochange
Total				15,439,094	100.00%	Template:Nochange	39	Template:Decrease2
Valid Votes				15,439,094	96.96%
Invalid Votes				483,355	3.04%
Total Votes				15,922,449	100.00%
Registered Voters/Turnout				20,796,700	76.56%	Template:Increase7.79%

List of Elected MPs

Constituency		Winner					Runner-up					Margin
Constituency		Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Votes	%
1	Madras North	K. Manoharan	Template:Party color cell	DMK	227,783	56.32	S. C. C. A. Pillai	Template:Party color cell	INC	166,449	41.15	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|61,334	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|15.17
2	Madras South	C. N. Annadurai	Template:Party color cell	DMK	248,099	59.38	K. Gurumurti	Template:Party color cell	INC	166,121	39.76	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|81,978	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|19.62
3	Sriperumbudur (SC)	P. Sivasankaran	Template:Party color cell	DMK	271,528	60.61	K. Sambandan	Template:Party color cell	INC	169,763	37.89	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|101,765	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|22.72
4	Chingleput	C. C. Babu	Template:Party color cell	DMK	255,845	61.32	D. V. Alagesan	Template:Party color cell	INC	150,114	35.98	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|105,731	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|25.34
5	Tiruttani	S. K. Sambandhan	Template:Party color cell	DMK	225,229	55.61	A. Krishnaswamy	Template:Party color cell	INC	149,680	36.96	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|75,549	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|18.65
6	Vellore (SC)	Kuchelar	Template:Party color cell	DMK	203,887	55.83	A. Jayaraman	Template:Party color cell	INC	134,155	36.74	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|69,732	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|19.09
7	Tirupattur	R. M. Gounder	Template:Party color cell	DMK	188,309	54.21	T. A. Wahid	Template:Party color cell	INC	159,078	45.79	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|29,231	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|8.42
8	Wandiwash	G. Viswanathan	Template:Party color cell	DMK	213,537	55.26	M. K. Gounder	Template:Party color cell	INC	132,878	34.39	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|80,659	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|20.87
9	Tindivanam	T. D. R. Naidu	Template:Party color cell	DMK	201,009	49.54	Lakshminarayanan	Template:Party color cell	INC	168,939	41.64	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|32,070	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|7.90
10	Cuddalore	V. K. Gounder	Template:Party color cell	DMK	225,571	55.95	S. Radhakrishnan	Template:Party color cell	INC	177,598	44.05	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|47,973	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|11.90
11	Chidambaram (SC)	V. Mayavan	Template:Party color cell	DMK	205,193	52.22	L. Elayaperumal	Template:Party color cell	INC	187,764	47.78	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|17,429	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|4.44
12	Kallakurichi	M. Deiveekan	Template:Party color cell	DMK	193,043	52.81	K. Parthasarathy	Template:Party color cell	INC	166,520	45.55	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|26,523	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|7.26
13	Krishnagiri	M. Kamalanathan	Template:Party color cell	DMK	165,079	50.78	T. S. Pattabiraman	Template:Party color cell	INC	146,785	45.15	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|18,294	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|5.63
14	Salem	K. Rajaram	Template:Party color cell	DMK	219,380	57.07	R. Ramakrishnan	Template:Party color cell	INC	155,871	40.55	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|63,509	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|16.52
15	Mettur	S. Kandappan	Template:Party color cell	DMK	184,004	53.14	G. Venkatraman	Template:Party color cell	INC	127,159	36.72	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|56,845	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|16.42
16	Tiruchengode	K. Anbazhagan	Template:Party color cell	DMK	232,365	55.29	T. M. Kaliannan	Template:Party color cell	INC	184,114	43.81	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|48,251	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|11.48
17	Nilgiris	M. K. N. Gowder	Template:Party color cell	SWA	167,712	48.06	A. Devi	Template:Party color cell	INC	148,010	42.41	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|19,702	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|5.65
18	Coimbatore	K. Ramani	Template:Party color cell	CPI(M)	240,856	57.93	N. Mahalingam	Template:Party color cell	INC	174,935	42.07	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|65,921	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|15.86
19	Pollachi	Narayanan	Template:Party color cell	DMK	237,035	58.56	S. K. Paramasivam	Template:Party color cell	INC	155,281	38.36	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|81,754	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|20.20
20	Dharapuram (SC)	C. T. Dhandapani	Template:Party color cell	DMK	259,768	62.39	S. R. Arumugham	Template:Party color cell	INC	148,902	35.77	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|110,866	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|26.62
21	Gobichettipalayam	P. A. Saminathan	Template:Party color cell	DMK	203,798	54.51	C. Subramaniam	Template:Party color cell	INC	154,853	41.42	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|48,945	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|13.09
22	Periyakulam	H. Ajmalkhan	Template:Party color cell	SWA	183,593	45.34	M. Ibrahim	Template:Party color cell	INC	155,972	38.52	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|27,621	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|6.82
23	Dindigul	N. Anbuchezhian	Template:Party color cell	DMK	260,065	62.40	T. S. S. Ramachndran	Template:Party color cell	INC	156,719	37.60	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|103,346	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|24.80
24	Madurai	P. Ramamurti	Template:Party color cell	CPI(M)	261,390	60.18	S. C. Thevar	Template:Party color cell	INC	155,922	35.90	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|105,468	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|24.28
25	Karur	M. Gounder	Template:Party color cell	SWA	209,380	53.00	R. Chettiar	Template:Party color cell	INC	185,662	47.00	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|23,718	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|6.00
26	Tiruchirapalli	K. A. Nambiar	Template:Party color cell	CPI(M)	202,879	50.32	V. A. Muthiah	Template:Party color cell	INC	200,334	49.68	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|2,545	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|0.64
27	Perambalur (SC)	A. Durairasu	Template:Party color cell	DMK	229,941	53.97	P. K. Ramaswamy	Template:Party color cell	INC	196,113	46.03	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|33,828	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|7.94
28	Pudukkottai	R. Umanath	Template:Party color cell	CPI(M)	199,469	48.25	A. N. Chettiar	Template:Party color cell	INC	190,087	45.98	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|9,382	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|2.27
29	Kumbakonam	S. Era	Template:Party color cell	DMK	213,866	50.19	C. R. P. Raman	Template:Party color cell	INC	193,827	45.49	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|20,039	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|4.70
30	Mayuram (SC)	K. Subravelu	Template:Party color cell	DMK	209,660	57.09	M. Chandrasekhar	Template:Party color cell	INC	157,616	42.91	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|52,044	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|14.18
31	Nagapattinam	V. Sambasivam	Template:Party color cell	INC	164,167	41.78	V. P. Chintan	Template:Party color cell	CPI(M)	152,948	38.93	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|11,219	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|2.85
32	Thanjavur	D. S. Gopalar	Template:Party color cell	DMK	225,414	52.64	R. Venkataraman	Template:Party color cell	INC	202,840	47.36	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|22,574	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|5.28
33	Sivaganga	Kiruttinan	Template:Party color cell	DMK	225,106	53.17	Subramanian	Template:Party color cell	INC	166,889	39.42	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|58,217	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|13.75
34	Ramanathapuram	M. Sheriff	Template:Party color cell	IND	180,392	47.23	S. Balakrishnan	Template:Party color cell	INC	148,367	38.84	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:black;"\|32,025	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:black;"\|8.39
35	Sivakasi	P. Ramamoorthy	Template:Party color cell	SWA	194,364	47.08	P. A. Nadar	Template:Party color cell	INC	162,692	39.41	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|31,672	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|7.67
36	Tirunelveli	S. Xavier	Template:Party color cell	SWA	186,864	48.12	A. P. C. Veerabahu	Template:Party color cell	INC	144,873	37.31	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|41,991	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|10.81
37	Tenkasi (SC)	R. S. Arumugam	Template:Party color cell	INC	166,737	41.52	Velu	Template:Party color cell	SWA	160,991	40.09	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|5,746	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|1.43
38	Tiruchendur	Santosham	Template:Party color cell	SWA	183,053	46.90	K. T. Kosalram	Template:Party color cell	INC	182,659	46.79	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|394	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|0.11
39	Nagercoil	A. Nesamony	Template:Party color cell	INC	180,265	53.38	M. Mathias	Template:Party color cell	SWA	128,251	37.98	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|52,014	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"\|15.40

Bibliography

Volume I, 1967 Indian general election, 4th Lok Sabha

External links

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